dynagirl

I usually don’t bother with goofy internet “what blah-blah are you?” quizzes, but couldn’t resist this one. I suppose blogging that increases my dork quotient.

Modern, Cool Nerd
82 % Nerd, 65% Geek, 39% Dork
How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 99% on nerdiness
You scored higher than 99% on geekosity
You scored higher than 99% on dork points

Whatever: Clearly You People Thought I Was Kidding

(Free !) pattern to, um, knit a Princess Leia Cinnabun hat/wig. The designer used alpaca; a good call, since that shit will keep your ears warm in the absolute zero of space. HEY! Make one in in green and gold and be the Belle of Lambeau.

Next I went to the belt, where I emptied my pockets, emptied my bag, took off my watch, and took off my shoes. The only thing they didn’t ask me to empty was my intestines, but that’s next year. Just before I went through the gate, the portly young woman on the other side, who I thought might find the stunt funny, was replaced by a surly old guy who looked like an ex-Marine. “Oh no,” I said to the vibrator.

FORWARD Governor Mark Warner is going to hold a virtual Town Hall meeting in Second Life. “When we all quit laughing, we kind of looked around and said, ‘Hey, that’s not a bad idea.”
Wow.
via BoingBoing

Bill Murray Soundboard

Wikipedia blocklog: Block log – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
04:59, 1 August 2006 Tawker (Talk | contribs) blocked “Stephencolbert (contribs)” with an expiry time of indefinite (please confirm ownership of this account per the email I sent before I unblock. That, and mention me on the show… (put me on notice!!!))

Tawker’s post
YouTube video of the August 1 Colbert Report that got him blocked
screen capture of the page Colbert changed

Did you know that the number of elephants in Africa has tripled in the last six months? I didn’t either!

I need to find a cool-looking warning sticker with the old classic,

Alles touristen und non-technishen looken peepers! Das machine is nicht fur der fingerpoken und mittengrabben. Is easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und popencorken mit spitzen sparken. Das machine is diggen by experten only. Is nicht fur gerwerken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken sightseeren keepen das cottenpiken hands in das pockets. Relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights.

to put on all computers, and, possibly even the whole entire internets.

A question over on Soopermomz, which I hope gets discussed further.

With a review like this, it’s gotta be good: We’re just about the happiest we’ve ever been with this book, and it’s mostly because of all the vomit stories and references to Arby’s.

Mmm. Arby’s.

My friend Pete just moved to Hawaii and he swears up and down that EVERYONE has one of these in their house. I think he’s lying, but wouldn’t that be rad? If you don’t live in Hawaii where these apparently come FREE with your rent, you can make a home-made Tiki Fireplace with smoking nose, like this dude did.

Follow the Tour de France 2006 in Google Earth. “It’s a network link, so any refinements will get updated automatically, so save it in your “My Places” if you plan to follow the race.” Nifty!

GET AWAY FROM ME, CARL MONDAY!!!!

10 Things I Hate About Commandments: Trailer mashup, at Pharoh High School. Principal Firebush is a nice touch.

For rhyming “modem” and “scrotum” (check the music video), and for coining the phrase “optical inch” (great band name, btw), I love this new bodyshave viral. Optical inch! I’m not going to be able to stop saying that today.
Via Mike Davidson

Want a less lame looking mySpace profile? Mike Davidson (he of sIFR fame and many fine web sites) shows you how. He also has 57 billion friends.

Web 2.0 or Star Wars? I got an embarrasingly high 35, which is suprising since I really could only identify the characters from the good trilogy. Then again, I surf all day, so I know more about the 2.0 crap.
Via CzelticGirl

How do deal with people who refuse to identify themselves on the telephone

Maothowie by optovox.
Shining flower #1174 cheers for the Great Leader!

OK, really, who gives a fuck that a football player has a blog? THIS will make you forget all other blogs ever and bow down before the awesomeness. Or not.

Pittsburg gh Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger has a blog. Oh, Steelers, please win. I know it’s petty, and I should be grateful for the time we had, but I really don’t want to see the ex-girlfriend take the Lombardi Trophy without us.

I’d never had a problem with people snarfing images before – using images I’ve posted here on their own pages, but linking to them directly rather than uploading them to their own server. I don’t check my stats too often, and just saw a huge traffic spike from various MySpace accounts. “Wow! I’m popular! I must have fans!” thought I… ha! Hardly. People seem fond of the Eddie Izzard and boob-tube sweater (NSFW) pictures. Too bad, babies, ’cause I just finally got around to adding some juju to my .htaccess file to stop that shit.

…if it weren’t for those meddling teenagers at Metafilter! This exciting tale of the MeFi Scooby Gang busting an eBay scammer still developing, after ~200 comments. Stay tuned!

Mr Dynagirl has started podcasting with some friends, and here’s the first Chumpsquad podcast, featuring Dan Cody and Christ Spruck chatting about technology.

Hey, I’ve been getting a comment spam flood, and so just installed a SpamKarma plugin – it looks like it was working, but now I’m getting word that legit comments are getting fatal errors. I just unplugged SK – so can you comment? And if so, especially if you’re using WordPress, whatcha use to keep the pill-pushing-casinos at bay?

I get a feeling I should have known about this earlier. Daily Dancer, thank you for sharing your joy.

Hey, look, himself has relaunched Chumpsquad.com. Welcome back to blogistan, honey! I’ll repaint it soon.

SNAKES on a PLANE not good enough for you? Try SNAKES on a BLOG.
Thanks, Quiddity!

Salon.com “redesigns” to celebrate its tenth anniversary, and looks older and more tired than ever. Plus, a quick check of the code reveals ninety errors. It’s also slow as molasses. There’s no excuse for that much ugliness.